Japa Room Nectars

Hare Krsna everyone. This past weekend we had nice sessions of the Japa Room, the first session which is being presented in Krishna.com live was nicely talking about our obstacles during chanting. Each devotee explained the habits they still have and need to fix in japa, others being there for the first time, felt comfortable to share their japa obstacles and what they should do to reform it.

The second session in paltalk was the 10th stage which describes all the other stages and make a review of the quotes from Srila Prabhupada and what was discussed. It's a lot of information to be kept but the main point is that we again make sure of what we have to be aware of and also what we need to improve in our chanting.

The first thing to fix some problem we have, is to ackowledge it and then find ways to have it fixed and move to the next one. Seems this process is endless, that we will always have something to work on our japa, but the main fact is that as much as we get purified we lose taste for the material energy and our taste for chanting increases, then it will be natural and easy to focus and chanting properly will flow. As Rasa prabhu just mentioned on his last post, we will look forward to chanting every single day, we won't "have" to chant, but we will do it as a pleasurable activity, waking up early and relishing our time with the Lord.
Another nectar was when a devotee made a very nice comment on the Japa room this weekend shared his efforts to keep on sticking to basic and necessary guidelines to chanting. He showed how he perceives when his mind wanders and he is able to bring it back to the sound and then he sees after some time the mind focusing again on some other thought and not the mantra, so he keeps on trying.

Wow I found this stage of understading very important to reaching objectives. I learned a lot and noticed I should take this to my Japa too, being more serious and ignore the thoughts that usually come. It's amazing when we can perceive our mind in this way and then make efforts to engage it properly. The Lord surely reciprocate with our efforts, giving us the intelligence to overcome our obstacles.
I learn a lot from other devotee's experiences in the rooms, sometimes I don't need to ask a question because all of them are answered in the discussions.
I hope we all have a nice week of chanting and be blessed by the Lord with realisations and we maybe able to feel the purifying effects of Japa.

Hare Krsna.

your servant,

Aruna dd